Exam 14: The Behavioral Social Learning Approach: Relevant Research

All of the following statements are reasons why the most preferable partners in romantic relationships are feminine or androgynous people except one. Which one?

Research on locus of control was developed out of Rotter's concept of generalized expectancies.

Male and female participants in one study were left alone to engage in a short conversation. The researchers found the least active and least enjoyable conversations took place when the couple consisted of

Vicki thinks that whether people make a lot of friends depends on the kind of job a person happens to get and the kinds of people who happen to move into the person's neighborhood. A personality researcher would probably classify Vicki as having a(n) __________locus of control.

Which of the following is not a reason why increased aggression is of particular concern from playing violent video games?

Femininity is associated with happiness in relationships. Researchers explain this finding in terms of each of the following except one. Which one?

Dogs exposed to aversive stimuli from which they could not escape were found to

In the very first demonstrations of learned helplessness, dogs were subjected to food deprivation.

According to the learned helplessness model, one way to treat depression is to

According to the androgyny model, both women and men will have the highest level of well-being when they are

Jeff enjoys playing video games on a regular basis, and the more realistic the violence in the combat video games he plays, the more he enjoys it. Because the games in which he is actively engaged are so realistic, you predict that Jeff will

Denise and Carla both place a high value on good health. Denise is an internal and Carla is an external. We would predict that

Researchers looking at the relation between locus of control and health sometimes fail to find the predicted results. Subsequent research determined that this may be because the researchers failed to consider the participants'

Which of the following is the most accurate pairing of terms?

According to recent research, being married to someone who has feminine characteristics is indicative of an unhappy marriage.

Under which of the following circumstances would we expect children to be least likely to imitate an aggressive model?

Imagine you present a gender-role inventory to a group of freshmen and discover that one participant scored low on both the masculine and feminine scales. Under which category does this participant belong?

Researchers have found that the basic psychological mechanisms of learned helplessness are similar to the same processes associated with which psychological disorder?

What might you expect to find when you compare the success rates of those with an internal versus external locus of control undergoing a stop-smoking treatment?

Define locus of control and distinguish between internals and externals. Discuss the relationship between locus of control and well-being and include evidence with regard to personal achievement and psychotherapy.